PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY — MINING
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Silk-culture, by the law of 1885, is exclusively in the hamls oi" the Government. The produce of cocoons in Austria in 1895 was 1,968,562 kilogrammes.
There are 127 agricultural institutions in Austria, with 4,282 pupils in 1895-96.
The administration of the forests and domains belonging to the State is in the hands of {a) the Administrators of Forests and Domains (the heads of husbandry) ; {b) the Direction of Forests and Domains ; (c) the Ministry of Agriculture. Under the Administration of Domains and Forests is an extensive association of forestry officials, and schools of various grades for Dractical training in forestry.
The total area under forest in Austria (1895) is 9,709,620 hectares, and of this 6,828,415 hectares are under pines, and 1,425,353 hectares under other trees.
II. Mining.
Mines are worked for common coal chiefly in Bohemia, Silesia, ^Moravia, and Galicia ; for brown coal in Bohemia, Styria, Upper Austria, Carniola, and Moravia. Iron ore is worked in Styria, Bohemia, Carinthia, Moravia, and Galicia ; silver ore in Bohemia ; quicksilver in Carniola ; copper ore in Salzburg ; lead ore in Styria, Galicia, Bohemia ; zinc in Galicia, Carinthia, Tyrol, and Vorarlberg ; sulphur in Bohemia, Tyrol, and Vorarl- berg ; manganese in Styria and Carniola ; alum in Bohemia ; graphite in Bohemia ; petroleum and ozokerit in Galicia ; while the largest production of salt is from Galicia, Upper Austria, and the Coast Land.
In mining there were employed in Austria in 1896, 119,797 men, 6,561 women, 5,814 juveniles, and 10 children ; total 132,182 persons. In smelting there were employed 11,841 men, 1,143 women, 678 juveniles, 284 children ; total 13,946 persons.
The following table shows the value of the chief mineral and furnace products in thousands of florins : —
Common Coal
Brown Coal
Raw Iron
Lead
Quick- silver
Zinc
Silver
Copper
1880 .
19,336
15,375
15,253
1,739
775
713
2,696
382
1890 .
30,401
27,639
27,311
1,399
1,596
1,467
3,197
602
1893 .
33,550
34,040
24,186
1,104
1,068
1,213
3,330
568
1894 .
33,183
32,290
26,750
1,113
1,057
1,269
3,032
745
1895 .
34,104
34,923
27,771
1,205
1,169
1,096
2,525
461
1896
35,255
36,228
28,781
1,527
1,150
1,284
2,141
553
The total value of mining and furnace products in five years was as follows in Austria in florins : —
— 1892
1893 1894
1895
1896 1
1
Mining products 70,438,556 , Furnace. . , 32,903,184
76,750,410 79,671,551 32,690,524 35,126,161
84,181,329 35,262,727
87,857,943 36,470,997
